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☆ Shopify has conducted quiet layoffs in recent weeks. Big AI plans have workers worried a larger cut is on the way.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Shopify workers are worried about another mass layoff. Shopify workers are once again bracing for another mass layoff. Much of the chatter around potential layoffs has centered on Shopify's Support org, which is responsible for troubleshooting issues for the company's millions of merchants. One Support employee told Insider that after viewing the town hall, they felt their firing would be inevitable. Shopify's first round of layoffs last July hit its Support division hard, and the company conducted a second round of layoffs in May.

Persons: Shopify, we're, Clovis Organizations: Company Locations: Ireland, Philippines, Shopify

☆ The strange, improbable rise of Mark Zuckerberg 3.0
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

In early July, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the latest and perhaps most consequential product in Meta's history: a new model of Mark Zuckerberg. Silicon Valley Zuck was a husband and father with a legacy to build and protect at all costs. Silicon Valley Zuck was suddenly faced with something he'd never dealt with before, shrinking revenue. Still clinging to his persona as Silicon Valley Zuck, Zuckerberg engaged in an all-out media blitz to hawk his vision for the metaverse. They were the sort of people Harvard Zuck would have scoffed at and Silicon Valley Zuck would have gently ignored.

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☆ Google tells staff it will ask them for feedback weekly as it reboots its famous 'Googlegeist' survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Google is shaking up its annual employee survey. Google will start soliciting feedback from staff on a weekly basis as it reboots the company's internal survey. The "Googlegeist" survey, which was distributed annually, has long served as a way for staff to anonymously share how they feel about leadership, compensation, and their teams. The Googlegeist reboot comes amid a culture shift at the company, following January's layoffs and a sharpened focus on artificial intelligence. Are you a current or former Google employee with something to share?

Persons: Google's, Fiona Cicconi, Cicconi, Hugh Langley Organizations: Employees, Google

☆ Shopify launched a new AI-powered assistant to help merchants as its support staff remains under a 'Code Yellow' for 'deteriorated' performance
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Shopify beta-launched an AI assistant for its help center. Shopify launched a beta version of an AI-powered assistant for its help center, the webpage where merchants can go to get answers to questions about running their business. In June, Shopify began asking some support staff to test a translation bot powered by OpenAI's technology. Its support staff already had the ability to use AI-generated template email responses to merchant inquiries. The bot can recommend products sold by Shopify merchants based on shoppers' answers to a series of questions.

Persons: Shopify, chatbot, Tobi Lütke's, Harley Finkelstein, Lütke Organizations: Shopify, Help

☆ Exclusive: Hunter Biden's gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor 'friend' who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Internal gallery documents reveal that sales of Hunter Biden's art brought in $1.3 million. The messaging seemed to suggest that Hunter Biden's art patrons came from a rarified universe of collectors who had nothing to do with the hurly burly of politics. Hunter Biden did in fact learn the identity of two buyers, according to three people directly familiar with Hunter Biden's own account of his art career. In the past, Hunter Biden has privately suggested that he could arrange to have friends seated on the commission. In fact, according to the person familiar with Hunter Biden's account, Morris purchased the art through Biden's gallery.

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☆ Etsy made 2 massive acquisitions at peak tech valuations. Two years and a $1 billion write-off later, it has buyer's remorse as it sells Elo7.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Etsy bought Elo7 and Depop at a time when tech valuations were sky-high. Etsy disclosed that it had sold Elo7, the Brazilian online marketplace it acquired in July 2021 for $217 million, to fellow Brazilian online marketplace Enjoei for an undisclosed amount. What's next for Etsy's portfolio of brandsFollowing the sale of Elo7, Etsy's portfolio will include its main marketplace, Depop, and Reverb, an online marketplace for musical instruments. But like Elo7, Depop has had some challenges with growth once the pandemic-related e-commerce boom ended, and it is also not profitable. "They're running Depop very similarly to how they run the Etsy marketplace platform," Khajuria said.

Persons: Etsy, Josh Silverman, Elo7, they've, Bernstein, Nikhil Devnani, Shopify, Devnani, What's, Depop, Kruti Patel Goyal, Khajuria Organizations: Evercore ISI, SEC, Elo7, Analysts Locations: Brazil, Latin America, Europe

☆ Meta tells managers promotions will be harder to get, less frequent, and won't be based on team size as much
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kali Hays | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Managers at Meta have for years been promoted based on the size of the team they built. With an ongoing slowdown in hiring at the company, managers will simply not be able to hire as much as they have in previous years. Another worker commented that taking away team size as a promotion metric means "a manager's career is just up to their ability to navigate politics from now on." For example, to become an engineering manager a person had to show they previously "accumulated" the right size team as a high-level engineer, as Insider previously reported. The new decision to promote fewer managers will make the reduction in Meta's management ranks more permanent.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg's, Maher Saba, Mark Zuckerberg, Saba, Headcount, Zuckerberg, It's, Kali Hays, Hugh Langley Organizations: Meta, Facebook, . Company, Twitter Locations: khays

☆ Shopify has had talks to invest in marketplace company Faire
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Shopify has had talks to invest in Faire, two people familiar with the matter said. Faire is an online wholesale marketplace that integrates with Shopify. Shopify has held talks to make a strategic investment in Faire, the wholesale marketplace company, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Canadian e-commerce company has discussed taking a stake of about 5% in Faire as part of the deal, one of these people said. While Shopify is better known for catering to DTC brands, B2B e-commerce has become a larger focus for the Canadian e-commerce company in recent years.

Persons: Shopify Organizations: Shopify, B2B, Shopify Ventures, Triple, Dragoneer Investment, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures

☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

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☆ Read the memo Shopify sent employees explaining its meeting cost calculator: 'Your calendar is a strategy.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Your calendar is a strategy, and the Meeting Cost Calculator helps you make informed decisions for organizing or accepting meetings. He said that employees could reference a page in Shopify's internal "vault" for more information about the meeting cost calculator. The Meeting Cost Calculator is here to challenge the status quo, nudging us to reconsider meeting necessity and explore more creative collaboration methods. The meeting cost calculator is the latest in a series of experiments Shopify has launched to maximize time and efficiency in its workplace this year. Your calendar is a strategy, and the Meeting Cost Calculator helps you make informed decisions for organizing or accepting meetings.

Persons: Shopify, Kaz Nejatian, Mark Zuckerberg, Tobi Lütke

☆ A high-profile director leading Google's augmented-reality efforts has left the company, citing its 'unstable commitment'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lucovsky built software for Google's AR products, including its recently canned "Iris" smart glasses. He said that Google's "unstable commitment and vision" to AR weighed on his decision to leave. Mark Lucovsky, a senior engineering director who was hired to lead work on Google's augmented-reality products, has left the company. "The recent changes in AR leadership and Google's unstable commitment and vision has weighed heavily on my decision," Lucovsky told Insider following his departure. Since shelving Iris, Google has sharpened its focus on building an Android platform to be used on an upcoming Samsung headset.

Persons: Mark Lucovsky, Google's, Lucovsky, Clay Bavor, he'd, Steve Ballmer, Ballmer Organizations: Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Meta

☆ Exclusive: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's secret calendar reveals a decade of deep Kremlin ties
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A copy of Prigozhin's calendar obtained by Die Welt and shared with Insider shows just how deeply enmeshed he was with the Putin regime. Putin's name appears in Prigozhin's calendar only twice, and neither entry records a one-on-one meeting. Wagner employees typically identify themselves and sign documents using three or four-digit employee numbers, and most Prigozhin's meetings with Wagner Group employees are presented this way. These rows of data extracted from Yevgeny Prigozhin's private calendar show Wagner Group personnel identified solely by their employee numbers. In the end, his demands for a slot on Putin's calendar went unanswered.

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☆ Shopify's midlife crisis: How a surprise pivot away from logistics capped the e-commerce giant's whirlwind year
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Madeline Stone | Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

But Shopify's logistics acquisitions, which came with around 550 more staff altogether, started to look like dead weight after the shine of the initial announcements wore off. By the beginning of 2023, the attitude toward logistics inside Shopify had shifted to palpable frustration, four people who worked for Shopify's logistics division said. Lance McMillan/Toronto Star via Getty ImagesIndependent of logistics, Shopify saw massive cultural shifts in the past several years. One core tenet of Shopify's work culture is "default to open," meaning it values transparency and sharing information with employees. The letter referred to Shopify's logistics work of the past four years as a "side quest" that distracted the company from its "main quest."

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☆ Amazon warns sellers who haven't completed its error-prone verification process they only have a few days before they stop getting paid
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some sellers face issues when trying to complete Amazon's verification process. The company recently told third-party sellers on its marketplace that they have only a few days to complete an identity verification process before the e-commerce giant stops paying them. Some Amazon merchants have been scrambling to complete the process, which has been plagued with errors. Other brands were acquired in recent years and had to hunt down the original owners of the Amazon account. He said that about 40% of Seller Interactive's roughly 500 partner brands faced issues at some point during the INFORM verification process.

Persons: Shlomo Greenblatt, Albert Scott Ecommerce, Greenblatt, Mohamed Aden, We've, Juozas Kaziukėnas, hasn't, It's Organizations: Amazon, eBay, Albert Scott Ecommerce Management, Interactive Locations: Aden

☆ Google killed its Iris augmented reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google has killed off a project to build a pair of augmented reality glasses it had been working on for several years. In 2020, the company announced it purchased North, a Canadian startup that made AR glasses. Since shelving the Iris glasses, Google has focused on creating software platforms for AR that it hopes to license to other manufacturers building headsets. Two employees said it's possible Google may resurrect the Iris glasses one day and that some teams are still experimenting with AR technologies. Other teams were moved to work on the software platform and Samsung partnership, they said.

Persons: Iris, Google's, Clay Bavor, Betty, catchup Organizations: Google, Samsung, VR, Employees, Apple, Bloomberg Locations: Canadian

☆ Shopify asks its customer-support staff to test new AI tools weeks after laying off thousands of employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Shopify is asking some of its customer-support team members to test a translation bot powered by OpenAI's technology, weeks after a round of layoffs in May. This move is the latest in a series of AI experiments in the support division, which troubleshoots issues for Shopify's millions of merchants. The bot can recommend products sold by Shopify merchants based on shoppers' answers to a series of questions. It also recently launched a tool called Shopify Magic, which uses generative AI to write product descriptions. Shopify's support team underwent several changes this year.

Persons: Shopify, Jen Bebb, Shopify's, Harley Finkelstein, Tobi Lütke, Clovis Locations: Shopify

☆ Google's crackdown on remote work is frustrating some employees: 'We don't like being micromanaged like school kids'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Google has told staff they must show up in the office at least three days a week. Google employees are having strong reactions to the company's biggest push yet to bring staff back to the office. The news has not gone over well with staff, according to discussions with several current employees and internal materials viewed by Insider. Google insiderGoogle has told staff that their work badges will be tracked, but the company told Insider it will only be used to identify consistent absences over multiple weeks. "Currently, New York City workers do not even have enough desks and conference rooms for workers to use comfortably," said Chris Schmidt with the Alphabet Workers Union.

Persons: Ryan Lamont, we're, Memegen, Fiona Cicconi, Chris Schmidt Organizations: Google, Google's, Alphabet Workers, Alphabet Workers Union Locations: New York City

☆ Google's Bard chatbot has been blocked in the European Union over privacy concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An EU regulator has blocked Google from launching Bard in the region. The company had planned to launch Bard in the European Union this week. Google has been forced to postpone the rollout of its Bard chatbot in the European Union over concerns raised by the EU's top data watchdog. The Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. GDPR, a set of data protection rules, gives individuals more control over how their data is used and transferred by businesses within EU member states.

Persons: Bard, Bard chatbot, we've, Google's, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Altman Organizations: European Union, Google, Morning, Irish Data Protection Commission, Politico, Data Protection, Irish Data Protection, General Data Protection Locations: EU, European, Europe

☆ Google is getting tougher on in-office work, and says it will consider attendance in employee performance reviews
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Pete Syme | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google told staff Wednesday its hybrid work policy is getting stricter. Google is getting stricter about in-office work, telling staff that the company will factor office attendance as part of their performance reviews, according to an email sent to staff on Wednesday, which was reviewed by Insider. But Cicconi said the new policy will make in-office attendance a factor when it comes to Googlers' performance reviews. Meta told employees last week that they will be expected in the office three days a week. Cicconi on Wednesday told staff that there was "no substitute for coming together in person."

Persons: Fiona Cicconi, Cicconi, Meta, We've, Knight Frank, Salesforce Organizations: Google, Employees, Morning, CNBC, Wednesday, Google Cloud

☆ Insider Interview: James Comey explains the rule-bending feds in his new and 'real' mystery novel
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Insider: Let's talk about Benny Dugan, the salty, streetwise investigator who works with prosecutors for the Southern District of New York. And I would say, "What makes you think I'm a good person?" Insider: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all the good people get bought up by the end of the book? There are at least 57 FBIs — a New York FBI, a Saint Louis FBI, headquarters, the Washington Field Office. I don't think we've grappled with the implications of that, and whether it fits within our normal Fourth Amendment framework.

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☆ New details emerge about Amazon's Ring staff spying on customers, and also reveals that 55,000 were hacked in 2019
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Caroline Haskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It also revealed new details about incidents of Ring employees and contractors spying on customers. The FTC complaint revealed that in between June and August 2017, a male Ring employee viewed "thousands" of videos captured on Ring cameras belonging to "at least 81" women, including Ring customers and employees. More than 55,000 hack victimsPrior to the publication of Wednesday's complaint, public knowledge about Ring employees spying on customers has been known, but vague. The complaint also reveals how many people were the victims of a series of 2019 hacks, which targeted Ring customers in several high profile incidents. Between January 2019 and March 2020, the FTC said in its Wednesday complaint, "more than 55,000 U.S. customers" were the victims of hackers targeting Ring accounts.

Persons: Yarger, Ring, Elisa Jillson, Jillson Organizations: FTC, Morning, Federal Trade Commission, FTC's, Consumer Locations: Ukraine, U.S, Washington ,

☆ We identified the 109 most important people at Google Cloud as it doubles down on AI to beat Microsoft and Amazon. Explore our exclusive org chart.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Internal Google data obtained by Insider shows the 109 most powerful people within Google Cloud. We built an interactive org chart of the top execs and staff helping Kurian lead the division. When Insider last mapped out the Google Cloud org chart at the start of 2022, it had around 40,000 employees. The Cloud unit has seen some notable departures and reshuffles in recent months. It's been almost a year since Javier Soltero, the head of Google Workspace, departed and was replaced by Aparna Pappu.

☆ Shopify is reopening its offices for in-person work for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Shopify will open some of its offices for daily work beginning this summer. Shopify plans to allow its employees to come into its offices to work several days a month, CEO Tobi Lütke told workers at an internal town hall earlier in May. "Shopify continues to value in-person time to build trust and create connections outside of dedicated team events," a Shopify spokesperson said. The company refers to its dedication to remote work as "digital by design." Most recently, Amazon began requiring employees to work in its offices at least three days a week starting this month.

☆ Revealed: Vladimir Putin's secret Black Sea bunker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | Anastasiia Carrier | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

You would think that the architects who designed Vladimir Putin's palace thought of everything. They failed to hide plans showing two elaborate tunnels running beneath the palace complex — plans that any competent state-security apparatus would fight tooth-and-nail to keep secret. The underground complex beneath Putin's palace consists of two separate tunnels connected by an elevator that descends roughly 50 meters below the surface. Gelendzhik is the town closest to the palace complex, a five-hour drive from the resort city of Sochi. "With the war in Ukraine," Kimmage said, "there's speechmaking, there's propaganda, there's exaggeration — there's this performative aspect that plays to Russia's domestic politics.

☆ Google is downsizing its contract workforce that supports YouTube, shortly after one contractor team's union victory
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Workers in Austin recently formed a collective bargaining group with the Alphabet Workers Union. The move comes shortly after a group of Cognizant workers supporting YouTube Music voted 41-0 in favor of unionizing with the Alphabet Workers Union, which is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, a larger trade union. The cuts did not impact the YouTube Music team, which helps curate themed playlists and review song metadata. The Cognizant team supporting YouTube TV had been in early talks to form their own union following the group at YouTube Music, according to three workers there. Cognizant also confirmed in an email that its contract supporting YouTube TV is ending.

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